Game device



G. R. STRONG.

GAME DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 20, I919.

1,365,863. Patented Jan. 18,1921.

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GAME DEVICE.

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GAME DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I GRACE B. S'rnoNe, a citizen of the United tates, resldmg at $tapleton, Staten Island, in the county pfRichmond and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game Devices; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descr1pt1on of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. r

This invention relates to game devices.

An object of the invention is to provide an improved parlor game'board on which an exceedingly interesting game may be played by two or more. persons.

Another object is to provide a deviceof this character which tends to increase public interest in farm life, thereby promoting the production of farm products.

Other objects and advantages may become apparent to persons who read the following details of description in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which a- Figure 1 is a top lan view of a gameboard made in accor ance with the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective vlew illustrating a formof inclosure or pen including separately movable fence sections or pickets seated in slots in the board.

Fi 3 is a vertical sectional View, the sectiongeing taken substantially along the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. v

Fig. 4 is a perspective view illustrating a storage sheath and a plurality of the pickets nil 1.13118 sheath.

Fig. 5 is a perspective-view illustrating a stack of representations of animals,.wh1ch constitute game counting members.

Referring to the drawin s in detail, in

which similar reference 0 aracters corre- I spend with similar parts throughout the several views, the game device comprises a game board which is generally designated by the numeral 6, aplurality of pickets or fence sec tions 7, gates Sand counting members 9.

Referring more particularly to Fig.3, it

will be: seen that the ame board 6 may constitute the lid of a get box, the remaining portion of the box beia indicated at 6, and counting. members i may be kept in the box when the game is not bein played. However, this invention is not limited to the box construction, and any appropriate means maybe employed for sup- Specifloatlon of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 18, 1921.

Application filed October 2c, 1919. Serial No. 331,809.

porting the lower ends of the pickets 7 where they extend through apertures 10 in the boxtop or game-board. There are four endless though goats have been chosen for the purpose of illustrating the invention. However,

.1t is preferable to represent some species of farm stock (that IS, live stock) in view of one of the purposes of this invention being to promote the industry of farming. Moreover, it is preferable to represent grazing or herbivorous animals, since anattractive feature of this device is thelawn adjacent to the farm house which is represented at 11.

The lawn which is indicated by the numeral In order to further increase the interest of the players in farm life, an attractive bench or benches 13 may be printed or otherwise pictured on the game-board, and a barn, sta' ble, garage or any other out house or houses .12 may surround the farm house, as indimay be included in the premises, as indicated Although I have described four of the pens, such as shown separately in Fig. 2, it

is obvious that a greater orless'number of pens may be employed.

The gates 8 may consist of two pickets (similar to the pickets 7 united by-a cross bar or strap 8, and the slots in which these ates fit are not numbered, the gates not be- .mg numbered, whereas, each of the other slots is numbered, and each of the fence sections 7 is provided with a number which identifies it with the slot having a similar number or identifying characters adjacent thereto. Of course it is understood that iden- I pen, thus gaining an animal.

when the playing party is unable to properly ments by means of which any one of the pickets may be withdrawn without materially disturbing or disarranging the remaining pickets. It will be seen, therefore, that a player cannot know what number is on the picket being drawn, and having drawn a picket, the player must adhere to his choice, and if this player is unable to properly place the'picket as an element of the pen being built by such player, the picket must be returned to the sheath, and the next player may then draw a picket. Of course, the picket which has just been returned should not have had its number disclosed to the other players, so thatthey cannot gain an advantage by drawing a picket of known identification.

A rule for playing a game with this game device may be substant1ally as follows:

' Assuming that the game apparatus comprises forty-eight counting members 9, forty-eight pickets or fence. sections 7, a farm-house and adjacent lawn and four endless series of slots or fence-section-seats 10 and that there are four persons playing the game, each player shall take possession of one pen-site (or endless arrangement of alined slots), placing a gate in the slots which are not numbered. Each player then places four of the counting members 9 in the pen-site to be fenced in by him, and thirtytwo of these counting members or representations of animals are placed upon the lawn 12. All of the pickets 7 shall be placed in the sheath or holder 15 so that the numbers thereof cannot be seen, and each player draws one picket at a time from the sheath 15 and places it in the slot 10 (of his pensite) which is identified with the picket to be placed. If the playing party can place the picket in the formation of his pen, ac-

cording to number or identification, he is entitled to do so and then take one of the animals from the lawn and place it in his However,

place a picket by reason of the corresponding identified slot being occupied by another picket,: the picket which was last drawn must be returned to the sheath 15, and an animal must be taken from the pen of the playing party and placed on the lawn 12, the. playing party thereby losing the count which the animal represents. The player who first completes his pen by placing a corresponding picket in each slot 10 wins the game and counts to his credit the number of animals or counting members there are in his pen and in the pens of all other players, but does not count the animals in the center of the board. The playing may progress either rightward or leftward, but preferably, when one player has finished playing, the next player to the right may draw a picket and place or attempt to place the same in constructing his pen. Final counting for the winner may be one hundred or any other desired number.

The directions for two players would be the same as for three or four players, except that each player shall. start with six of tie counting members inhis pen and thirty-six counting members are placed in the center of the board or on the lawn 12.

Although I have described this embodiment of my invention very specifically, it is not intended to limit this invention to these exact details of construction and arrangement of parts, but changes may be made within the scope of the inventive ideas as implied and claimed.

I claim:

1. A game comprising a playing field having picket seats inclosing pen-sites, the playing field being provided with indicating characters positioned adjacent the picket seats, the indicating characters of one pensite having duplicates in the indicating characters of the remaining pen-sites, a alurality of pickets for fitting into the picket seats having indicating characters corresponding to the indicating characters of the playing field, and a receptacle for the pickets concealing the indicating characters thereof, and counters adapted to be placed in the pen-sites as the pickets are placed in the picket seats.

2. In a game-device, a game-board com prising a plurality of series of longitudinally alined sockets arranged to form separate pen-sites, a. plurality of game-counting members adapted to be placed on said pensites, and a plurality of fence-pickets each adapted to have its lower end fitted into one of said sockets, each of said pickets having thereon an identifying character, each of said slots being provided with an identity ing character that is identified with that of one of said fence-pickets and unidentified ular portions are exposed and their identifying characters are hidden, and a plurality of counting members adapted to be placed on said pen-sites, each of said fence-sectionseats comprisin an identifying character identified with t at of one of said fence-sect tions and unidentified with that of the other of said fence-sections, each of said fence sections being adapted to be secured in an upright position by a fence-section-seat bearin the same identifyin character.

I1 testimony whereof have hereunto set 111 band.

y GRACE R. STRONG. 

